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I strongly disagree with the U.S. drinking age, but I just don't accept comparisons between this type of law-breaking and the actions of suffragettes or civil rights protestors. What an insult to heroes who risked their lives to make this country better.
Just because someone's breaking a silly law doesn't mean they're protesting it. The drinking behavior we're talking about is breathtakingly selfish. The people involved have no political aims, and the law-breaking they're doing is a lot more comparable to taking illegal drugs than it is to sitting in at a lunch counter. Heroin addicts who die of overdoses are not martyrs to any political movement, and neither is this Chi Psi pledge.
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